Now Absolut vodka or malt whisky....that's different! Or even a good brandy now and again....

I've even come across some French vodka of late. Expensive but extremely nice.

I haven't seen it for a long time but my tastebuds have orgasms just thinking about Smirnoff Dark Mars Bar vodka. It was served from the freezer neat or (at a push) over ice. It was in a bar in Liverpool and I was happily necking the stuff until I tried to stand up and my legs decided to go in the opposite direction to the rest of my body....

Tequila, in the view of one bar owner I knew, said it isn't a alcoholic beverage, it is a drug. That stuff, except for the top shelf product, is like LSD when consumed in large quanities. I would only recommend it in moderate use with Margaritas.

Tequila is the alcohol I drink most often. A margarita, with Patron tequila...delicious! It's never gotten me sick, but then I don't drink that much of it. Why does tequila have this reputation of being a 'bad' liquor?

If you ever lucky enough to be on Cuba Street in Wellington, look out for the Tequila bar. All tequilas seem to be accounted for there and range in price from NZ $8 to $50 per shot! I thought I had died and gone to lush Heaven. (I nearly did too! )

A) Don't have the stomach to endure large quantities of tequila.
B) Went on a bender and took a bunch of straight shots (tequila can be quite unforgiving in these instances).
C) Drank some cheap-ass tequila like Cuervo on said bender, which will kick your ass and make you swear off the stuff or...
D) All of the above.